Technical Problem

No1newts · 1 Aug 2010 at 11:16

Feel free to move this if it is in the wrong section just not sure where to post.

I just bought a hard drive cradle so I can get access to my old HD from an old rig. I want to get some pictures off there but it wont let me saying I need administrator permission (I was the admin on my old HD)

How can I give myself access to these files? :confused:

MowyTone · 1 Aug 2010 at 11:29

im guessing that there was a password when you ran this disk yeah? have you tried doing a "runas" and under username putting "<computername>\<user name>" and then the old password?

havnt tried this myself but would be the first thing i tried

No1newts · 1 Aug 2010 at 11:33

GuRkHa//$PIMP$ said:
"runas"

Sorry I know, im a fool

MowyTone · 1 Aug 2010 at 11:54

ok I cannot see a quick way of doing this from win7 so:

Start, Run, enter CMD. on command line type

runas /user:<computername>\<username> <drive mapping>

You will then be asked for the password

Drive mapping = C: or what ever your machine has given the drive, probably E: or F:

Deleted member 77746 · 1 Aug 2010 at 11:58

You could take over permissions on the current system

properties > security > advanced > owner ......

MowyTone · 1 Aug 2010 at 12:03

If you could do that wouldnt it defeat the point of having a password protected system?

No1newts · 1 Aug 2010 at 12:38

optitech-uk said:
You could take over permissions on the current system

properties > security > advanced > owner ......

GuRkHa//$PIMP$ said:
If you could do that wouldnt it defeat the point of having a password protected system?

You would have thought so but that actually worked, pretty pointless getting a password on your computer then really as if someone wants in just take the HD and change the permissions :rolleyes:

But it worked for me so happy days, thanks for the advice chaps

CaptainCrash · 1 Aug 2010 at 13:13

No1newts said:
You would have thought so but that actually worked, pretty pointless getting a password on your computer then really as if someone wants in just take the HD and change the permissions

Not really - standard Windows file permissions are only designed to provide a basic level of security and they work well for their intended purpose. It would be a bit awkward, especially in a corporate setting, if they weren't ultimately subject to the authority of an administrator account, which is one reason why such accounts should be used with care.

If you really want to protect data from anyone who might gain physical access to the hard drive, you need to use encryption, but you have to be careful about managing and backing up your keys or it will end in tears - eg in your situation, you *wouldn't* have got your data back, ever...